Motion-picture machine.



No. 819,514. -PATENTED MAY l, 1906. J. E. GAHILL & C. I. JENKINS.

MOTION PICTURE MACHINE. APPLIOATION FILED DB0. 1, 1905.

f M/VENTORS.

UNifrnD STATES PATENT oFFiCE.

lCHARLES lFRANCIS JENKINS, OF

JERMIAH EDWARD, cenni; AND

` WASHINGTON, DISTRICT 'OF T()v SAID GAHILL,

CLUMBIA; SAID JENKINS iSSIGrlTORy Morrow-:Piernas MACHINE.

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Specification of ietters Patent rammed May 1, ieee Ilpplication tiled Da ceinbr 1,1905. Serial No. 289,936.

4To aZZ -whm it may cmtcern:

Be it'known that we, JERMIAH EDWARD CAHILL and CHARLES-Farmers JENKINS, citizens of the United States, residing at Washington, District of Columbia, have invented cer tain new and'useful Improvements in Motion- Picture' Machines, of whichthe icllowing'is a speciication l Our invention is designed" for exhibiting 'a series of related pictures re resenting successivephasesy Otan animate scene, commonly known as motionictures, andbelongs to that class in which theseveral pictures are on cards and so moved .past the point of obsermomentarily exhibited.

vation that each card vacts to obscure adja?v cent cards while thepicture thereon is being The principal o bfect of our invention isv to provide means whereby the picture-cards may be closely grouped, giving a great num-- ber in a small compass quickly and cheaply asand Fi metho frame.

' on throughout t sembled and at the same time in va light frame readily interchangeable in the exhibiting-machine. f Figure l-shows the mechanismin elevation, s. 2 andk 3 parts thereof disclosing the v.of attaching the 'picture-cards to the Fig. 1 vshows the cardsA in contact at their bases -arranged on a ring-like trame B, having internal gear-teeth@ supported on and rod-` tated by the pinion D and` guided by the c grooved roll E. The rotation ofthe pinion the 'cards to be bent backward" by the detent Eexposing the pictures thereon to view at A'. T e continued rotation'causes '.tlie cards to slip from under'the detentF, ex.-

picture in the series,- and so e complete rotation of tile frame B, all of which is obvious and readilyposingl the next 'understoodby those skilled in the art to which this invention belongs.

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suitable means 'may be em loyed to fasten the cards tothe frame B, alt ough thel method'we prefer isshown in Figs. 2 and 3" f that is, the icture-cards A are perforated at the base wit four small holesG.. Circularlybent wires H are inserted in two of these holes, whileat the point where the sections of .the ring are joined the wire lap or break joints, so thatJ all the holes are occupied at this particular point and for a short distance I each way therefrom. Onel of the sections ci the ring is connected up and-iitted with the Hat plate I, of thin metal or the like, fastened between adjacent sections of the ring-frame.

by means of the screws J. When this section is filled with picturefcards strung on the curved wires, another section is added, and

so on.- Four sectlons are preferred to three, although 'three are shown in the drawings. The joiningo the sections of vthe. frame is done by means of the screws J, and when the last section is put in'place the whole forms ,one continuouspicture-card carrier possessing many advantages 'of construction over any. device invented :for similar purpose' known to us.

What we clama, therefore, as our invention,

and wi'shto protect by Let-ters Igatent of the' In motion-picture apparatus, the combina tion with a' set of series plcture-cards 1n regisof a multiple-sectionring-likeframe, a fcurvedwire attached to each section slightly 

